Physician beliefs about abortion safety and their participation in abortion care
Swan et al. Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare. Dec. 2023. Highlights READ MORE
REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE
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The Two Front War on Reproductive Rights—When the Right to Abortion is Banned, Can the Right to Refuse Obstetrical Interventions Be Far behind?
Minkoff, Unmesha Vullikanti, and Marshall. The American Journal of Bioethics. Oct. 13th 2023 The loss of the federally protected constitutional right to an abortion is a threat to the already tenuous autonomy of pregnant people, and may augur future challenges…
Harvard University Classes on Reproductive Justice
BETH 746 Reproductive Ethics, Law and Justice The class will focus on reproductive health, law, and ethics. Understanding and learning about the legislative process is essential to this class. Reproductive justice issues span not only constitutional law considerations, but also…
San Jose State University Classes on Reproductive Justice
JS 174 – Reproductive Justice Draws on various theoretical and analytic tools to examine the ways that reproduction is entangled with broader justice issues such as racism, sexism, immigration, incarceration, medicine, civil rights, political economy, population control, and environmentalism. Read…
How Governors Used Executive Orders to Protect Abortion Access in a Post-Roe United States
Fairbanks. Guttmacher Institute. July 2023. Though some states had previously enacted abortion protections, many states with elected officials supportive of abortion rights did not begin to prepare for the loss of federal abortion protections until a draft of the Dobbs decision was leaked,…
Consent for trainee participation in abortion care: A qualitative study of patient experiences and preferences in the United States
Crystal-Orenlas et al. Contraception. May 2023. Patient-centered approaches to seeking consent for trainee involvement in abortion care must reduce potential for coercion. A standardized consent before the procedure room by a trained staff member without the trainer or trainee present…
Strengthening Medicaid: Challenges States Must Address as the Public Health Emergency Ends
May 2023 – A report from the Center for Popular Democracy, People’s Action, and Make The Road detailing the challenges Medicaid and Medicaid enrollees face as the public health emergency ends. The report includes several recommendations for state action: READ…
FACT SHEET: What it costs Wisconsinites to obtain abortion care out of state in the post-Roe landscape
University of Wisconsin Collaborative for Reproductive Equity April 2023 In this brief, we outline costs of seeking out-of-state abortion care for Wisconsinites in the post-Roe landscape. Our analyses demonstrate the everyday impacts of restricting access to reproductive healthcare. READ MORE
‘The Biggest Problem With Access’: Provider Reports of the Effects of Wisconsin 2011 Act 217 Medication Abortion Legislation
Valley et al. WMJ. March 2023. Abortion legislation in the United States determines people’s access to services, including the abortion modality of their choice. In 2012, Wisconsin legislators passed Act 217, banning telemedicine for medication abortion and requiring the same…
Historical Resources Abortion Rights, Health, and Justice Organizations
The Smith College Libraries house an extensive collection of historical records related to abortion. The records include organizational documents from, for example, the organization then known as the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), Choice USA, and the Chico Feminist…